Stringing holiday lights in front of your house may seem like a daunting task, but imagine decorating the KING 5 television tower on Queen Anne, 400 feet in the air? The tower is lit up once again, as is a Seattle tradition, and Evening Magazine has the inside story on how they did it.

(By the way, if one bulb goes out, it doesn’t take down the entire strand. “That would be a really bad idea,” says the man who installed them.)